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NetVibes personal portal page
This has been getting a lot of buzz lately -- NetVibes is another personal portal in the vein of Google personalized home and Microsoft's Start page. You can syndicate RSS feeds in drag and droppable DIVs, embed a search widget, and get a preview pane for your Gmail account. One notably handy addition is the ability to add notes to a page, which adds some of the flavor of Protopage to the mix. I won't be too surprised if we keep seeing more of these gloriously AJAX-ified personal portal page offerings.
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nymph3tamine said 8:07PM on 9-26-2005
Opera and Safari support to come ...
*sigh*
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Brian Pipa said 9:12AM on 9-27-2005
Good to see you fixed your RSS feed so it would work with Netvibes and the google start page.
brian
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Fabian said 10:09AM on 9-27-2005
feeds from weblogs.inc seem to be not working for me. I can see the preview all right, but when I add them to my page they stay on "loading" forever...
...damn and I thought I'd finally have a nifty start-page to go :-(
Oh yeah and a nuisance many cool ajax-sites have: I'm not able to use tabbed browsing in firefox (because the middle-click does not work as usual).
...oh and for some strange reason netvibes is constantly asking me for username and password for https://blogger.com - whenever I try to add a new feed to my page, or when the page first loads. Even when I'm just adding my del.icio.us bookmarks or some such blogger-unrelated stuff...
...so right now, I'd say it's pretty much an alpha judging from these bugs. I'll try it a bit further, and hope it can be improved. I'd really love the service - because frankly the personalized google page didn't do it for me.
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